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“#A list of the US’s most censored<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Ever since books have been printed and distributed, there have been groups of people eager to set fire to them, ban them, and general<\/a>ly make sure certain titles (and the exciting ideas contained therein!) never see the light of day. Book burnings were a regular event in university towns across Nazi Germany in the 1930s, where student unions set ablaze any titles they deemed \u201cUn-German\u201d or subversive. Over the decades, there have been plenty of attempts to censor and ban here in the United States, as well.<\/p>\n

Banned Books Week kicks off Sept. 27 and celebrates the freedom to read, with a special highlight on current and past attempts to censor certain tomes in schools and libraries.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s funny how today\u2019s subversive is tomorrow\u2019s classic, isn\u2019t it?\u201d said Lynn Lobash, The New York Public Library\u2019s Associate Director of Reader Services.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen books are censored, it\u2019s usually because they contain issues or characters that challenge present-day norms and make people uncomfortable. Basically, it\u2019s out of fear \u2026That\u2019s exactly why banning books is in direct contrast to a public library\u2019s mission: we believe knowledge is power, and that an important benefit of reading is gaining new perspectives and a better understanding of our world. Additionally, the people represented in the pages of those censored books can read them and be assured that they\u2019re not alone. That is so critical. In many cases over history, those books were their only outlet.\u201d<\/p>\n

While not an exhaustive list by any means, here\u2019s a list posted on the American Library Association (ALA) website of \u201cBanned and Challenged Classics\u201d that have offended and angered people over the years.<\/p>\n

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This novel \u2014 wherein depressed prep schooler Holden Caulfield details all the things he hates and has been let down by \u2014 has been consistently controversial since it was first published in 1951. The Linton-Stockton Indiana high school in 1988 claimed it was \u201cblasphemous and undermines morality,\u201d and it was challenged at Jamaica High School in Sidell, Ill., in 1992 for containing profanities, depicting premarital sex, alcohol abuse and prostitution.<\/p>\n

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The Steinbeck novella about two migrant ranch workers came out in 1937 and has been challenged by school boards ever since for offensive language, racial slurs and, according to a coalition of clergy in Mobile, Ala., \u201cmorbid and depressing theme<\/a>s.\u201d Somewhat hilariously, the book was also been taken to task due to Steinbeck\u2019s noted \u201canti-business attitude,\u201d and was thus nixed as a summer youth program reading assignment in Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1989.<\/p>\n

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This 1960 novel, long revered as a classic for its depiction of racism and justice in a small Southern town, has been challenged and banned for decades with accusations of racial epithets, racism masquerading as literature, and for words such as \u201cdamn\u201d and \u201cwhore lady.\u201d (Eden Valley, Minn., 1977).<\/p>\n

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The 1982 Pulitzer Prize winner and coming of age novel about a young black woman named Celie deals with heavy issues like rape and incest \u2014 and has been consistently challenged for graphic sexual content and violence. In some towns, such as the Ferguson High School Library in Newport News<\/a>, Va., the book can only be checked out with parental approval.<\/p>\n

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The 1955 novel by the Russian-American novelist has never failed to scandalize, as it revolves around a sexual relationship between a middle-aged man and a 12-year-old girl. Over the years, the novel has been banned for obscenity in France, Argentina, England and New Zealand.<\/p>\n

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People all over the world have taken exception to this 1922 modernist novel, not because of its length (730 pages!) or the fact that it\u2019s a notoriously difficult read (long run-on sentences without punctuation) but due to charges of obscenity. It has been burned in the United States, England, Canada and Ireland.<\/p>\n

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about slavery, published in 1987, is no easy read; that\u2019s what makes it so incredible. It has been consistently challenged at schools across the country for \u201cinappropriate\u201d topics such as slavery and racism.<\/p>\n

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George Orwell\u2019s 1945 classic, a barnyard allegory that is critical of communism, has been banned from many schools worldwide for problematic ideas. In 1963, the John Birch Society took issue with the words \u201cthe masses will revolt,\u201d while others claimed Orwell was a communist. The book was banned by schools in the United Arab Emirates in 2002 on the grounds that it contained pictures of alcoholic drinks and pigs.<\/p>\n

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The classic 1969 book, which centers on the firebombing of Dresden, has been challenged in many communities, but was burned in Drake, ND. Complaints include foul language, sexual content, and violence.<\/p>\n

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This novel begins with a bang \u2014 literally, a terrorist bomb going off on a London-bound airplane \u2014 and also packed a punch upon its 1988 publication; Iran\u2019s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, calling on Muslims to execute the author and anyone else involved in the book\u2019s publication.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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